E-Mail Basics

This workshop is designed to teach the fundamentals of e-mail using Yahoo Mail - currently the largest supplier of free e-mails in the world. It is assumed that, at the beginning of this presentation,
…

This workshop is designed to teach the fundamentals of e-mail using Yahoo Mail - currently the largest supplier of free e-mails in the world. It is assumed that, at the beginning of this presentation, the student has setup an account.

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) typically include a free e-mail address with your service

There are many free services that will provide e-mail service. The three most popular free e-mail providers are 1 (in order of popularity):

Yahoo http://mail.yahoo.com

Hotmail (Microsoft) http://www.hotmail.com

Gmail (Google) http://www.gmail.com

1. http://www.hitwise.com/datacenter/rankings.php Note : If you switch ISPs any e-mail addresses you get with your ISP is lost. This is why some people prefer to use free e-mail services such as Hotmail instead of the e-mail provided by their ISP